Mayor Mike McGinn City Attorney Pete Holmes, and newly-minted Police Chief John Diaz will be in Belltown tonight at the Palace Ballroom, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. to talk shop public safety six weeks after the implementation of the Belltown neighborhood’s nightlife safety plan. After several weeks of escalating violence in Belltown, the mayor and the Seattle Police Department proposed reallocating 20-plus officers normally working in non-patrol units such as SWAT, anti-crime, and DUI officers, and put them on patrol in Belltown and Pioneer Square “where people are spilling out after bars close and where we expect the biggest crowds,” explained Assistant Chief Mike Sanford. The nightlife safety plan runs each Friday and Saturday night throughout summer, with officers patrolling the streets until 4:00 a.m.
The last Belltown public meeting—held the day this safety plan debuted—was populated with residents skeptical of the plan’s efficacy.
It’ll be interesting to hear what the community thinks of it now, six weeks into the plan.
Sure, take some “transit” in, do some reurbanized shopping, be held hostage, I dunno…it’s all about an evening on the town!
for those of us that WORK or LIVE in Belltown but work during business hours- we can’t always check the damn slog during the day. how about some fucking notice!?!! If this shit was on the hill we’d have a week’s notice.
#2 if you followed stuff in Belltown you would have known about this ages ago.
Cieanna’s job is to be the press not a publicist for Belltown or the Mayor.
I stopped by but could not stay. I am looking forward to watching it on the Seattle Channel.